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“One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.”

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Author:Alvin Ailey

“Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.”

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Author:Simon Heffer

“the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.”

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Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“One of the best things about humans is we recognize patterns, so we get things like science, music, philosophy. One of the worst things is that we see patterns that are not there so we get things like racism, homophobia and Jerry Falwell.”

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Author:James Marsters

“Everybody's a racist. It's the one human trait that makes us all exactly the same. Deep down, we only like people who are exactly like us. And it doesn't matter. White. Black. Red. Yellow. Purple, uh oh, the purple people, are the worst. Man. All prejudiced and birth marky. But, we've got to learn to get past our differences. I learned that at the museum of tolerance. After my dad beat the crap out of a guy over a parking spot.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.”

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Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“The fact that there's a more open discussion about everything from feminism to racism ... I look at my two boys ... this is their future I'm talking about. When I'll be long gone, it'll be them and their kids. I know that sometimes the darkest times are followed by the lightest. Sometimes bad things have to happen for good things to happen. At the very worst, we're having very open discussions, discussions about things we didn't even know f-king existed. I talk to my friends about it and they are absolutely shocked. They didn't even know.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.”

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Author:Jordan Peele

“I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect on institutional bias in criminal justice. But what - what - what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement. We truly do believe that law enforcement is not a force for racism or division in our country.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“To make inexpensive guns impossible to get is to say that you're putting a money test on getting a gun. It's racism in its worst form.”

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Author:Roy Innis

“And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.”

“All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.”

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Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.”

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Author:Megyn Kelly